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...host to the contras in exchange for extensive military aid, Honduran leaders have repeatedly issued embarrassed denials that rebel bases exist within their borders. But more than once Honduras was forced to give the lie to its own claims. Just last month the Hondurans were compelled by Washington to request assistance to halt a Sandinista cross-border attack aimed at the contra camps, then watched dismally as 3,200 U.S. troops rushed into the country. Says a Western diplomat in Tegucigalpa: "Honduras has always been a means...
...asked that National Guard military police be dispatched to South Central L.A. for a "show of force." While the Governor's office replied that such a move would be "doubtful," the full county board of supervisors and the Los Angeles city council began debating whether to formally to request the assistance of the Guard...
...omelets must be cooked until no liquid remains. Restaurateurs may balk at such guidelines. Says John Benson, of Manhattan's Mme. Romaine de Lyon, which offers 500 types of omelet: "I certainly can't make an omelet well done or dry unless it's at the customer's request." But if salmonellosis is not brought under control, customers may make that request -- or stop ordering eggs...
...GSPA obtained half of its request for a $1000 increase to students' yearly stipend of $6500, says the GSPA's Wayne Glasker...
What to do? Like other experts, the task force, which was set up last September at the request of the Senate's housing subcommittee, concluded that the only answer is building up federal housing subsidies dismantled by the Reagan Administration. Specifically, the group recommended adding almost $3.4 billion to the $13.8 billion budgeted for federally subsidized housing in fiscal 1988. Some $3 billion would be funneled to states to finance a new Housing Opportunity Program to build or rehabilitate low-cost housing; states would be required to match half that outlay, for a total of $4.5 billion. An additional...